Paul Tazewell
by Jeroslyn JoVonn

January 28, 2026

Paul Tazewell, Emma Grede, JJ Johnson Among TIME 2026 Closers List

Released on Jan. 27, just ahead of Black History Month, the third annual list highlights 18 Black leaders from diverse fields who leverage their talents to drive positive change.

British businesswoman Emma Grede, Oscar-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell, and James Beard Award-winning Chef JJ Johnson are among TIME Magazine’s 2026 “Closers,” 18 Black leaders advancing greater equality.

Released on Jan. 27, just ahead of Black History Month, the third annual list highlights 18 Black leaders from diverse fields who leverage their talents to drive positive change.

This year’s honorees span social justice, business, sports, entertainment, and the arts, including Erin Jackson, Olympic champion speed skater; Abre’ Conner, director of the NAACP Center for Environmental and Climate Justice; and Marc Philpart, CEO of the Black Freedom Fund.

“Our annual Closers list launches just ahead of Black History Month,” TIME editors said. “We are proud to tell the stories of these 18 leaders who, despite ever-evolving challenges, remain determined to make change and to better the world we share.”

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem

Here’s the full 2026 Closers List:

  • Abre’ Conner, director of the NAACP Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
  • Angela Doyinsola Aina, co-founder and executive director of Black Mamas Matter Alliance
  • Calvin Butler, CEO of Exelon
  • Danielle Deadwyler, actor and producer
  • Dara Eskridge, CEO of Invest STL
  • Darren Walker, philanthropist
  • Emma Grede, founder, entrepreneur, author, and host of Aspire with Emma Grede podcast
  • Erin Jackson, Olympic champion speed skater
  • Imani Perry, author and scholar
  • JJ Johnson, chef and advocate
  • Jamal Joseph, filmmaker and professor
  • Jennifer Eberhardt, social psychologist and Stanford professor
  • Karen Pittman, actor, producer, and activist
  • Marc Philpart, CEO of the Black Freedom Fund
  • Nneka Ogwumike, president of the WNBA players association
  • Paul Tazewell, Oscar-winning costume designer
  • Sarah Lewis, art historian and Harvard professor

The list highlights Black leaders across the U.S. committed to building a more equitable world.

Pittman uses her experience with food insecurity to advocate for those relying on government assistance. Ogwumike is fighting for a collective bargaining agreement to reward players as the WNBA grows. Together, these leaders drive innovative, community-focused initiatives at a time when equity initiatives have been challenged.

“We have to meet the moment,” Perry said. “We can still read the banned books, teach each other what needs to be taught, and maintain an imagination for a just society.”

A ceremony celebrating the 2026 Closers List will be held Feb. 12 in Atlanta.

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SOCCER,Michelle Alozie, Houston Dash Pierreline Nazon
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton

January 28, 2026

Trinity Rodman Inks New Deal With Washington Spirit, Now Highest-Paid Female Soccer Player

Her deal deal is reportedly worth over $2 million annually.

Trinity Rodman has recently signed a new three-year contract with the Washington Spirit, making her the world’s highest-paid female soccer player. The Spirit announced the record-breaking contract.

Rodman will be with the franchise until 2028.

ESPN reports that the deal is worth over $2 million annually, including bonuses. Rodman’s agent, Mike Senkowski of Upper 90 Sports Group, confirmed that she is now the highest-paid player in National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) history.

The previous record was held after Rodman extended her rookie contract in 2022, signing a four-year contract with the Spirit worth more than $1.1 million. That happened after she led the team to the NWSL championship and was named the league’s rookie of the year.

“I’ve made the DMV my home and the Spirit my family, and I knew this was where I wanted to enter the next chapter of my career,” said Rodman in a written statement. “I’m proud of what we’ve built since my rookie season, and I’m excited about where this club is headed. We’re chasing championships and raising the standard, and I can’t wait to keep doing that with my teammates and the best fans in the NWSL.”

Rodman broke into professional sports as the second overall selection in the 2021 NWSL Draft. At 18, she was the youngest player ever drafted by a NWSL team.

“Trinity is a generational player, but more importantly, she represents the future of this club and the future of women’s soccer,” said Michele Kang, owner of the Washington Spirit and founder of Kynisca. “This agreement reflects our belief that elite talent deserves elite commitment. At the Spirit, we are building something enduring: a club that competes for championships every year, invests in excellence, and creates an environment where world-class players can thrive long-term. Trinity choosing to continue her career in Washington is a powerful statement about what we are building here.”

Rodman, the youngest player in league history to reach 50 career goal contributions, is a two-time Ballon d’Or Féminin finalist and a 2024 NWSL MVP finalist. In less than five years with the Spirit, she holds the franchise’s all-time assists record. She is also a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) which won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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A Different World, including Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Cree Summer, Darryl Bell and Debbie Allen
by Kandiss Edwards

January 28, 2026

‘A Different World’ Reboot Hosts Casting Call For The Series’ HBCU Students

The original series ran from 1987 to 1993.

Netflix is holding an open casting call for background actors to appear in its upcoming sequel series to A Different World, the classic ’90s sitcom. 

Set at the ficticous HBCU Hillman College, the Atlanta-based production posted the ad on ProjectCasting.com.

Applicants must be 18 or older and able to portray members of an HBCU campus community, including students, parents, or faculty, as background actors in scripted scenes. The posting says filming will take place in the Atlanta area. Actors will be paid for their work.

The listing encourages performers, particularly HBCU students and alumni, to bring authentic campus life to the series’ backdrop. No prior acting experience is required, though applicants are expected to be reliable, punctual, and professional during filming.

The production is part of Netflix’s intention to revive the A Different World universe. As opposed to the more common spin-off, the platform is blending returning legacy cast members with a new generation of characters.

Original stars such as Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison are reportedly reprising their roles. The sequel series will follow the next generation at Hillman College under creative leadership that includes Bel-Air showrunner Felicia Pride. Filming is scheduled to extend into mid-2026 in the Atlanta region.

A Different World ran on NBC from 1987 to 1993. The spin-off of The Cosby Show aired 144 episodes and introduced such talents as Guy, Hardison, Marisa Tomei, and Sinbad. 

Known for its cluster of HBCUs, Clark Atlanta University, Morris Brown College, Spelman College, and Morehouse College, Atlanta is a prime location for the revival. The show will incorporate Black campus culture and stories grounded in Black youth experiences in higher education.

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Megyn Kelly
by Keka Araújo

January 27, 2026

Megyn Kelly Shows Audacity And Apathy For ICE Agents Killing Alex Pretti

Instead of empathy, Megyn Kelly opted for a narrative of self-righteous claptrap.

Conservative Megyn Kelly is once again at the center of a national firestorm, but this time, the backlash is crossing traditional political lines. Following the Jan. 24 shooting of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by ICE agents, Kelly’s response was a chilling masterclass in supercilious dehumanization.

During a recent broadcast of The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly offered a “hard-line” take on the tragedy that left the Minneapolis medical community reeling.

Rather than addressing the nuances of an ICE operation that ended in ten rounds being pumped into a pinned civilian, Kelly opted for a narrative of self-righteous claptrap.

“I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t,” Kelly stated, her voice devoid of the gravity usually reserved for the loss of a frontline healer. “Do you know why I wasn’t shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my a** inside and out of their operations. It was very simple.”

As she was being lambasted virtually, Kelly doubled down on her trash rhetoric, writing on X, “He was an agitator. He was in a physical confrontation w/the Feds A WEEK EARLIER. Still, he went back & injected himself into a law enforcement op. FAFO. As for me, I have plenty of compassion for the innocent Americans being killed, raped & molested by illegals. Where are your tears for them?”

He was an agitator. He was in a physical confrontation w/the Feds A WEEK EARLIER. Still, he went back & injected himself into a law enforcement op. FAFO. As for me, I have plenty of compassion – for the innocent Americans being killed, raped & molested by illegals. Where are your… https://t.co/E5zHc2oAX6

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 27, 2026

After her damning commentary, the internet–swiftly and rightfully–ate her up.

“Cancel this twatzi immediately,” one user penned on  Instagram.

IG user Floki Kleiner wrote, “Shame on you. Your response to this situation shows exactly why so many people no longer trust you! You’ve replaced moral judgment with political loyalty. You don’t analyze first; you pick a side, then justify it. When a human life is lost, empathy and accountability should come before partisanship. That used to be journalism. This is something else entirely.”

Kelly’s logic rests on a dangerous binary: that safety is a reward for silence and that presence—even the presence of a professional trained to assist in crises, including saving lives—is a justification for state-sanctioned execution. 

Her assertion that Pretti simply “got himself into a bad situation” by exercising his right to witness and protest suggests a world in which the sidewalk is no longer a sanctuary but a kill zone for the noncompliant.

The callousness of the rhetoric was apparently too sharp even for some of Kelly’s ideological peers. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in a rare break from federal law enforcement sycophancy, challenged the narrative that Pretti’s status as a legal gun owner made him an inherent threat to ICE agents.

“I unapologetically believe in border security… but I also unapologetically support the Second Amendment,” Greene noted. She pointedly compared the aggressive federal response in Minneapolis to the tactical interventions involving Jan. 6 participants, highlighting a growing fear that federal agencies are being weaponized against citizens regardless of their political leanings.

The fundamental flaw in Kelly’s dismissive and disgusting posture as a journalist is its intentional erasure of the “witness.” To suggest that a citizen’s death is a “simple” consequence of being present is to advocate for a society that surrenders its right to oversight. Pretti was an ICU nurse—a man whose entire professional life was dedicated to moving toward trauma to provide care. 

To demand that an American citizen “stay inside” while his neighbors are subjected to tactical, unlawful force by ICE is to require the death of the human spirit.

Kelly’s “stay inside” philosophy is more than just a lack of empathy; it is a surrender of the very liberties she claims to defend. At the core of the matter is a simple truth: when the state is allowed to silence a healer on a public street, no one is truly “safe” inside their home.

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50 cent, dame dash
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton

January 27, 2026

Shaniqua Tompkins Claims She Was Threatened To Sign Life Rights Contract With 50 Cent’s G-Unit Books

She claims 50 Cent's late manager forced her to sign it

Shaniqua Tompkins, the mother of 50 Cent’s first son, said she signed away her life rights to G-Unit, 50 Cent’s company, because she feared for her life.

According to AllHipHop, Tompkins, who signed the life rights deal in 2007, said that G-Unit intimidated her and broke the terms of the agreement. She is responding to a lawsuit brought by G-Unit Books, which is suing Tompkins for breaching the life-rights deal when she began talking about 50 Cent in interviews and on social media.

She has accused 50 Cent of physical and verbal abuse while she was pregnant and while they were in a relationship. 

Tompkins signed the deal that was supposed to give G-Unit Books broad, exclusive rights to her life story, name, and likeness, while restricting her from telling her side of the story without the company’s approval.

She now says the intimidation was initiated by 50 Cent’s then-manager, Chris Lighty, who has died. Tompkins says she received repeated phone calls from him, insisting she “had to sign the agreement,” even after she declined. 

She claims Lighty tracked her down and appeared at a Las Vegas hotel room with another man to get her to sign the agreement.

“During this encounter, Mr. Lighty told me that I would suffer severe consequences if I did not sign the agreement,” Tompkins said. She said she wasn’t allowed to read the full contract and was only shown the signature page, and she was made to sign it on the spot.

“Fearing for my life and for my children’s lives, I signed the agreement under extreme duress,” and that she “had no meaningful choice.”

She also claims G-Unit Books did not hold up their end of the bargain. The company was supposed to pay $80,000, but she only received $35,000 after they took $5,000 to pay a lawyer (allegedly one of 50’s attorneys) she says she never hired.

Tompkins argues that the company “did not honor the agreement it now claims to enforce,” and she should not be bound to a contract it allegedly broke first.

The affidavit also says that during this time, her relationship with 50 Cent was. not in a good space, so she was emotionally and financially dependent on him and under pressure from people in his circle. She also stated that she was a stay-at-home mother “entirely financially dependent on” the rapper, and left a house-flipping business at the insistence of 50 Cent.

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Don, Lemon, released, arrest
by Sharelle B. McNair

January 27, 2026

Black Pastor Warns Don Lemon Against Church Protest: ‘It’s Going To The Royal Rumble’ 

Wooden offered sympathy for North Carolina's first Black lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, following a bombshell report that he called himself a "black NAZI."

Following his viral Minneapolis church incident, journalist Don Lemon has ruffled some feathers with faith leaders like Bishop Patrick L. Wooden Sr, who have issued harsh warnings against the former CNN anchor making any appearances.

The pastor of Upper Room COGIC in Raleigh, NC, spoke out against the actions of Lemon and First Amendment protestors storming into a church service to confront Cities Church’s lead pastor, David Easterwood, who was revealed to be an ICE agent.

While things were seemingly peaceful during the service interruption, Wooden said that wouldn’t be the case if the same thing took place in Raleigh.

“Y’all see when those people invaded that church the other day? Now I just wanna say to protestors and all of them…don’t do that here. Amen,” the pastor started. “Don Lemon, don’t come here. You roll up in this church doing stuff like that, and it’s going to be the Royal Rumble.”

As parishioners started to giggle, Wooden stood firm on his stance: “The funny thing is, I’m not joking.”

He added, “We have worked hard. We built the church in the name of the Lord. We dedicated it to the Lord. It’s built for worship. Our blood, sweat, tears, and finances are in this place. So, people who have never knocked on the doors of the church, and never contributed one dime to it, going to roll up in here and disturb our service and scare our children and shout obscenities in the church—that will not stand in this church.”

The federal government feels Lemon and protestors went too far in disrupting the church service, resulting in the Department of Justice being hopeful that a judge would charge Lemon for his anti-ICE protest coverage.

That didn’t happen, upsetting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Nicki Minaj.

This isn’t the first time Wooden has controversially spoken out on the day’s hot topics. Following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Wooden praised him for promoting conservative Christian values, offering condolences, and urged his parishioners to do the same. 

In 2024, according to The Christian Post, he defended former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and the state’s first Black lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, following a bombshell report that he labeled himself as a “black NAZI” and praised slavery on a pornographic website between 2008 and 2012.

“Whether this stuff that they’ve unearthed is him or not …. he said those are not the words of Mark Robinson, and I believe him,” said the pastor, who once called Kamala Harris a danger to Black Americans. “I believe him more than I believe this media.”

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Demond Wilson, ‘Sanford And Son’
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman

January 27, 2026

Rest In Power. Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles, Trailblazing Black And Women’s Studies Scholar, Dies At 88

Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles leaves behind a legacy of scholarship focused on Black women's place in Americana.

Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles, a scholar known for her studies centering Black women in Americana, has died.

Wade-Gayles became a leading voice for interdisciplinary women, gender, and Black studies, centering her work in this discipline. Born in Memphis in 1937, Wade-Gayles endured an upbringing under the Jim Crow doctrine of the South. From this experience, she developed a lifelong passion for academia and activism, using her scholarship to shape her curriculum and advocacy.

She first began her academic studies at LeMoyne College, graduating with a B.A. in English in 1959 from the Syracuse, New York-based institution. Wade-Gayles went on to pursue an M.A. in American Literature, becoming a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Boston University a few years later.

According to The EDU Ledger, her esteemed education landed her a post as a faculty member at Spelman College, teaching American literature at the all-women’s HBCU. However, her time at the college was cut short over her activism during the Civil Rights Movement. As a participant in the Freedom Summer of 1964, Wade-Gayles taught while on the road, taking the classroom to the frontlines.

Following a years-long career in education and social justice advocacy, she pursued her own scholarship in the early ’80s, obtaining a Ph.D. in American Studies at Emory University. She later returned to her original employer, shaping the lives of Black female students for the next four decades as a professor of English and women’s studies. Her legacy and foundational leadership led to her honor as the Eminent Scholar’s Chair in Independent Scholarship and Service Learning.

At the school, she also founded the Spelman Independent Scholar (SIS) program in 2001, along with its accompanying Oral History Project, and RESONANCE, a choral program, the following year. Her legacy in academia also made her a recipient of Georgia’s Professor of the Year Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1991, in addition to the Presidential Award for Scholarship from Spelman.

As for her contributions to the literary world, Wade-Gayles wrote several novels and academic articles. This includes her 1984 work “No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women’s Fiction” as well as her 1993 memoir “Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey Home.”

With her storied research, emphasis on Black women’s experiences, and grounding in American culture, Wade-Gayles remains an integral figure in championing this field. Her incorporation of activist work into this scholarship also exemplifies the impact one can have beyond the classroom, shaping how history is told and by whom for years to come.

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Shellye Archambeau
by Jeroslyn JoVonn

January 27, 2026

2026 Women Of Power Legacy Honoree Shellye Archambeau Broke Barriers As A Former Tech CEO And Fortune 500 Board Member

Shellye Archambeau will be honored as a boardroom powerhouse at the 2026 Legacy Awards Gala during the BLACK Enterprise Women of Power Summit.

Fortune 500 board member and former MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau will celebrate Black women in the boardroom when she takes the stage at the 2026 BLACK ENTERPRISE Women of Power Summit to receive her Legacy Award.

Archambeau joins a distinguished lineup of women from business and the arts receiving top honors at this year’s Legacy Awards Gala. She is recognized for over 30 years of experience building and scaling B2C and B2B tech brands and becoming the first Black woman CEO in Silicon Valley with expertise in governance, risk, and compliance, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

A senior executive mentor with the ExCo Group, Archambeau currently serves on the boards of Verizon Communications (chairing the Corporate Governance and Policy Committee), Roper Technologies (chairing the Nominating and Governance Committee), Okta, and Lineage, where she helps advance a more sustainable cold chain. She also sits on the boards of national nonprofits Catalyst and Braven, and previously served on the boards of Nordstrom and Arbitron.

As former CEO of Silicon Valley’s MetricStream, Archambeau helped establish the company as a leader in governance, risk, and compliance solutions. She has also held executive roles, including chief marketing officer and EVP of Sales at NorthPoint Communications, EVP of sales and marketing at Loudcloud, and President of Blockbuster.com, where she launched the retailer’s online presence.

After establishing herself in the boardroom, Archambeau has leveraged her platform to support others—appearing as an expert on CNN and CNBC, contributing to Forbes, and collaborating with HBCUs, among other initiatives. In 2020, she published Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms.

Fortune named the book one of the top business books of 2020.

Archambeau’s other accolades include being ranked the second-most influential African American in IT by Business Insider, being listed among Newsmax’s 100 Most Influential Business Leaders in America, and receiving the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

Shellye Archambeau’s decades of business leadership will be celebrated at the 2026 Legacy Awards Gala, where she will accept her Legacy Award alongside luminaries such as Angela Bassett, Carla Harris, Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, and Bennie Wiley.

Registration for the 2026 BLACK ENTERPRISE Women of Power Summit is available HERE.

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Melania Trump, George Floyd
by Jeroslyn JoVonn

January 27, 2026

Duh! People Aren’t Interested In Seeing A Melania Trump Documentary

The film opens Jan. 30.

As the release of Melania Trump’s theatrical documentary approaches, social media users are mocking theaters for reportedly struggling to sell tickets.

The film, Melania, chronicles the First Lady in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration. While the film opens on Jan. 30 in an estimated 1,500–2,000 theaters nationwide, screenshots shared on social media suggest moviegoers aren’t particularly interested in seeing the doc.

“Not a single ticket sold for the opening night 9:55 p.m. showing of Melania at the busiest movie theater in the metro-Jacksonville area,” Travis Ackers tweeted over a screenshot of a booking screen for the film in Trump’s home state of Florida.

Users shared screenshots of online ticket bookings in their cities, many showing wide availability for the Melania documentary on opening night.

“Zero sold in Atlanta. Opening night. Busy theater,” one person wrote alongside a screenshot.

“Same thing in Colorado!” added someone else.

One X user joked that Trump would take to Truth Social after the film’s opening night to claim, “The tickets were sold out, everyone was begging for tickets, and I didn’t know what to do,” a remark another user referenced when noting their local theater had sold only 20 tickets.

“Trump claims that Melania screenings are selling out fast. At my large nearby multiplex, for four screenings on opening day Friday, they have so far sold… 20 tickets,” they wrote.

Others mocked billionaire Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon MGM Studios reportedly spent $40 million to acquire the film’s rights and another $35 million on promotion. Reports suggest the movie is expected to earn only $5 million in its opening weekend, resulting in a total loss for the studio.

“Melania the Movie is a disaster for Amazon and embarrassing AF for Melania and Trump. $5M opening weekend. They paid her $40 million and another $35M to get it into 1,400 theaters across 27 countries. That’s an average of $3,571 for each theater. FAILURE!” an X user exclaimed.

The Melania documentary is faring even worse overseas, reportedly selling few or no tickets in the limited U.K. theaters where it’s showing.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Obamacare, insurance, affordable
by Sharelle B. McNair

January 27, 2026

MTG Speaks: ‘You Are All Being Incited Into Civil War’

The shooting is added to a long list of wrongs the former MAGA follower encourages both Democratic and Republican leaders to make right.

Former Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t backing down on her fight for political transparency, calling on her past MAGA colleagues to “take off their political blinders” as she warned of the latest Minnesota shooting as the potential start of a “civil war.” 

Taylor Greene expressed her support for law enforcement, particularly ICE agents, but pushed back against their involvement in the shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, pushing against the narrative that he posed a threat to federal officers because he was armed.

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens, and I support law enforcement. However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment,” the former MAGA loyalist said. 

“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.” 

She then took a trip down memory lane to Jan. 6, 2021, when dozens of armed insurrectionists threatened lawmakers and subsequently took over the U.S Capitol. 

Greene noted that many Republican leaders, including President Donald Trump, defended the group and their Second Amendment rights. She questioned if it was OK then, it should be the same for Pretti.

“We lost our minds when we watched Biden’s FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6’ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors….” Imagine if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6’er’s house while Biden’s FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest,” she said. 

“What would have been our reaction? Both sides need to take off their political blinders. You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically, people are dying.”

https://twitter.com/FmrRepMTG/status/2015438556789870682

Trump’s stance on Pretti differentiates from J6. After Homeland Security released a picture of a handgun, allegedly taken from the victim before the shooting, the 47th president shared it, defending his ICE troops.

“This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!) and ready to go,” he wrote on Truth Social, according to The Hill.  

“What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE officers? The Mayor and Governor called them off? It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do!”

The shooting is added to a long list of wrongs the former MAGA follower encourages both Democratic and Republican leaders to make right. Taylor Greene did a complete 180 on her conservative colleaguesbeforeo abruptly announcing her retirement from Congress in November 2025.

Her switch-up came from several concerning issues, including economic policies affecting her rural region and her party’s failure to disclose full records related to disgraced financier and late-indicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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